Indian telecom sector is on the path to
prosperous growth till 2013 indicated recent research study
conducted and made public by Gartner.
Future projections by Gartner :
* The Telecom sector revenues would touch $30 billion by 2013
registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5 percent
between 2009-2013.
* The Telecom subscriber base is also expected to grow at a CAGR
of 12.5 percent and would cross 770 million by 2013.
* Mobile market penetration is projected to increase to 63.5
percent in 2013 from 38.7 percent in 2009.,
* The churn rate – the rate at which a subscriber switches their
operator – would cross 59 percent in 2013 from 53 percent
currently.
* The number of people with prepaid connections, accounting for
93 percent of the subscriber base in 2008, will continue to
swell to exceed 96 percent by 2013, surpassing 740 million.
* The revenues from data services will significantly contribute
to mobile services in India, with a CAGR of 16.8% from 2009 to
2013.
International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000)-
3G- 3rd Generation includes GSM EDGE, UMTS, and CDMA2000 as well as DECT and
WiMAX.
3G offers a wide range of applications including:
Mobile TV - Due to the high data transfer rate being
offered due to 3G, TV can be viewed on Mobile Phones.
Video Conferencing
Tele-medicine
Location Based Services - These include weather
updates, live road traffic view, and vehicle tracking.
Video on Demand - Videos can be viewed on demand from a
service provider.
A 4G cellular system must have target peak data rates of
up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and
up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless
access, according to the ITU requirements.
Today's 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology,
released during the spring 2009, is often branded "4G" but does not fully
comply with the IMT-Advanced requirements. LTE Advanced (Long-term-evolution
Advanced) is a suggestion for IMT-Advanced standard, submitted by the
3GPP organization to ITU-T in to be released in 2011. 3GPP LTE Advanced has
higher targets than the ITU requirements.
Infrastructure and the terminals of 4G will have almost
all the standards from 2G to 4G implemented. Existing systems are in place
to adopt existing users, the infrastructure for 4G will be only packet-based
(all-IP). Technologies considered to be early 4G include:
